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Hour 1: Rick Santelli is retiring. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: Now, this is The Mark Simone Show on 710WOR.
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  Speaker 2: All right, hang on. We're not really ready yet. We
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  Speaker 2: had a little studio crisis here. All right, I think
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  Speaker 2: we're all set. So, yeah, we couldn't get the studio
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  Speaker 2: out of here. All right. this is it. I use
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  Speaker 2: a separate studio from everybody else. And whatever happens on
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  Speaker 2: the weekend here, sometimes you come in and it's all, uh,
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  Speaker 2: screwed up. So, uh, we've got everything. Everything sounds good.
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  Speaker 2: Now I can hear myself. Uh, we got a lot
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  Speaker 2: to get to. We'll get to Maria Bartiromo. What the
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  Speaker 2: hell happened there? We'll get to, uh, Iran. What's going to,
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  Speaker 2: what's going on there. We'll get to Canada. The big
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  Speaker 2: battle with Canada. Now you're going to, if you watch MSNBC, uh,
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  Speaker 2: all morning, it's, uh, This terrible fight with Canada, how
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  Speaker 2: it's affecting Americans. Well, if your house is buying bombardier jets,
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  Speaker 2: it might affect you. But otherwise, I don't really think
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  Speaker 2: it's happening. You really don't buy much of anything from Canada.
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  Speaker 2: And it's just going to be a little, a totally
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  Speaker 2: unnoticeable thing. It's like when you watch CNN or MSNBC.
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  Speaker 2: you'll see this big dramatic, the Iran war. It's not
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  Speaker 2: really a war. I mean, there was a war a
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  Speaker 2: few months ago for a couple of weeks, but this
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  Speaker 2: is just little skirmishes, occasional firing a missile here, and
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  Speaker 2: they wouldn't call this a war. I don't know what
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  Speaker 2: the hell you'd call it. It's a weird situation, but
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  Speaker 2: it's not, you know, and if you look at these studies,
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  Speaker 2: focus group surveys, most Americans paying absolutely no attention to
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  Speaker 2: this Boy, you see so much false reporting all the time.
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  Speaker 2: Here's a great example. President Trump is not coming to
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  Speaker 2: Ground Zero for 9-11. And you remember the New York
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  Speaker 2: Times was the first to report the reason he's not
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  Speaker 2: coming is they won't let him speak. So he's decided
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  Speaker 2: not to come. Well, that's a hell of a story.
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  Speaker 2: Now it turns out it's the fakest news ever from
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  Speaker 2: the New York Times from this idiot Maggie Haberman who
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  Speaker 2: just makes up crap all the time. Now, they don't
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  Speaker 2: have speeches at the 9-11 ceremony. And Donald Trump has
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  Speaker 2: gone to that ceremony dozens of times. He knows there's
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  Speaker 2: no such thing as speeches. Nobody speaks. Only the family speaks.
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  Speaker 2: The families speak and they read the names. No politicians
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  Speaker 2: speak there. They used to do it the first couple
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  Speaker 2: of years. I think it was about 2010, they decided
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  Speaker 2: no politicians will ever speak here again on 9-11. So
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  Speaker 2: he knew that. Just totally fake, ridiculous story. You know,
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  Speaker 2: he was going to close the Kennedy Center for two years,
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  Speaker 2: and all of the fake news, the networks and CNN
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  Speaker 2: and MSNBC said, he's claiming it needs to be rebuilt.
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  Speaker 2: He just wants to rebuild. He's claiming there's nothing wrong
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  Speaker 2: with the Kennedy Center. Well, Over the weekend, Friday night,
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  Speaker 2: it rained hard in Washington, D.C., and part of the
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  Speaker 2: ceiling collapsed in the Kennedy Center. As we told you
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  Speaker 2: last week, the big problem with the Kennedy Center, the
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  Speaker 2: reason it's so horribly damaged inside, it's what they call
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  Speaker 2: water intrusion. The way it was built through the years,
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  Speaker 2: they just kept adding on and adding on and adding on,
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  Speaker 2: and all the pipes weren't attached seamlessly, so there have
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  Speaker 2: been so many leaks and pipe bursts that the whole
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  Speaker 2: thing is crumbling mold. The whole, it's one of these
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  Speaker 2: situations where you got to literally gut the whole place
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  Speaker 2: and start over. But when he said that, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the media telling you he's lying, he's claiming that, well,
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  Speaker 2: a big chunk of the ceiling collapsed. Luckily it was
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  Speaker 2: closed and nobody was there. And where the ceiling fell
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  Speaker 2: is right in the lobby where everybody would be walking
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  Speaker 2: in and out. So you would have had a lot
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  Speaker 2: of injury or, Who knows what? But look at my Twitter.
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  Speaker 2: You'll see a picture of a... There's a big hole
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  Speaker 2: in the ceiling. It just collapsed from the rain. Luckily, again,
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  Speaker 2: as I say, it was closed. No one was injured.
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  Speaker 2: In Russia, Putin had meetings with Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff.
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  Speaker 2: These are the president's two chief negotiators. Now, some argue,
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  Speaker 2: you know, you should have more foreign policy guys do
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  Speaker 2: these negotiations, not these New York real estate guys. What
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  Speaker 2: do they know about... foreign leaders, foreign policy. Well, uh,
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  Speaker 2: Kissinger used to tell Trump, don't use the state department.
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  Speaker 2: Don't use these foreign policy guys. And he used to
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  Speaker 2: tell him these idiots with their briefing books, don't know
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  Speaker 2: a damn thing. So, and it's true. They're just bureaucrats.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, these guys are, they may just be New
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  Speaker 2: York real estate guys, but they're doing billion dollar deals. They're, uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, they're getting things done. They can't, uh, Do
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  Speaker 2: what State Department guys do. Take 14 years to negotiate something.
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  Speaker 2: They got to do it in a couple of days.
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  Speaker 2: So they were over there negotiating with Putin, which is
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  Speaker 2: like negotiating with Iran. No matter what agreement you get,
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  Speaker 2: nobody's going to stick to it. So I don't know
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  Speaker 2: what the point is. You know, the difference with these guys,
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  Speaker 2: these guys are business negotiators and you're negotiating with another
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  Speaker 2: business that has to make money. So they basically got
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  Speaker 2: to follow through. But if you're Iran or you're Putin,
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  Speaker 2: you're just nuts. You're a lunatic, a violent, crazy lunatic.
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  Speaker 2: You don't have to follow any agreement. But Witkoff doing
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  Speaker 2: a few shows to talk about these negotiations. Can we
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  Speaker 2: get the next gen? Let's try it now. Witkoff talking
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  Speaker 2: about these negotiations. No, it's still. Let me see. Can
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  Speaker 2: we do it now? Nope, no audio, sorry. Studio completely
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  Speaker 2: messed up by whoever was here on the weekends. Let
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  Speaker 2: me know if you ever get it. So what was
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  Speaker 2: the point of all this? Oh, so Witkoff and Kushner
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  Speaker 2: coming back. I don't know. You know, the other problem
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  Speaker 2: with Putin is approval ratings. You see this? Approval ratings
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  Speaker 2: have sunk so low. Now, if you're a politician in
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  Speaker 2: this country, that could be a problem. That could be
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  Speaker 2: a big problem. If you're Putin, it doesn't matter. Anybody
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  Speaker 2: runs against you, just shoot him. You just kill him.
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  Speaker 2: It's a different election system over there. So you really
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  Speaker 2: don't have to worry too much about approval ratings. But
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  Speaker 2: they think he might be looking for a way out
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  Speaker 2: of Ukraine. He's getting killed and slaughtered in Ukraine. Nobody
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  Speaker 2: ever thought they'd live to see this.
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  Speaker 3: But.
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  Speaker 2: You got to give Zelensky, Ukraine credit. They really turned
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  Speaker 2: things around. They learned how to build missiles. They learned
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  Speaker 2: how to build drones. They built their own factories. They're
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  Speaker 2: turning them out like crazy. They have, you know, Russia
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  Speaker 2: was supposed to be the superpower. Ukraine has a lot
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  Speaker 2: more missiles, a lot more firepower and a lot more drones.
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  Speaker 2: And they've been pushing Russia back, not just holding them,
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  Speaker 2: but pushing them back. They've killed, I think, something like
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  Speaker 2: 100,000 Russian soldiers in the last couple of months. So
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  Speaker 2: Putin's got a real problem. So that's why they're over
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  Speaker 2: there negotiating now. They just think maybe he's looking for
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  Speaker 2: an exit ramp from this mess. Now, of course, he
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  Speaker 2: would start up again in a year or two. But
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  Speaker 2: we'll see if they come through with anything. Maria Bartiromo,
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  Speaker 2: what the hell happened there? Well, it's been a rocky relationship,
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  Speaker 2: Maria Bartiromo and Putin. Fox, and before that with CNBC,
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  Speaker 2: you know, she ended up leaving there. Now, sometimes she
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  Speaker 2: gets into a little too much controversy, you know, like election, this,
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  Speaker 2: remember with Dominion, election tamper, she jumped into that a
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  Speaker 2: little too much. There was an incident a couple of
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  Speaker 2: months ago where Kevin O'Leary was on, making all kinds
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  Speaker 2: of claims about China, and then Fox had to issue
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  Speaker 2: 12 different apologies, so it She was always pushing the
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  Speaker 2: envelope a little too much on certain things. And, you know,
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  Speaker 2: she didn't have the highest ratings in the world. In fact,
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  Speaker 2: the show averaged about 120,000 viewers. That's not a lot.
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  Speaker 2: You know, there's other shows on the network that do much,
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  Speaker 2: much more than that. So it was a tricky situation.
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  Speaker 2: So she's now being accused of, the word is that
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  Speaker 2: she leaked out memos to the White House. And that
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  Speaker 2: she leaked them to Peter Navarro, who's a very nice guy.
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  Speaker 2: But that's the last guy I'd pick to keep a
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  Speaker 2: secret about anything. That's the last guy I'd... If I
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  Speaker 2: had to pick somebody to be really discreet, I don't
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  Speaker 2: think he'd be my first choice. So apparently word got
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  Speaker 2: out she's not there anymore. But Fox Business doing very, very,
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  Speaker 2: very well. Just crushing CNBC around the clock. Big shows there.
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  Speaker 2: Varney does real well. Uh, all the evening edit is
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  Speaker 2: getting big numbers now. And the biggest show of all
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  Speaker 2: in the history of business television, Kudlow is just killing
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  Speaker 2: it every day. So they're doing better than ever. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: actually I'll be on Kudlow, uh, later today, four to
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  Speaker 2: five on the Fox business network. Uh, mom, Donnie, well,
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  Speaker 2: nine 11 ceremonies are Friday. He's planning to go. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: it seemed like, uh, It was just not appropriate to
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  Speaker 2: have him there. I mean, this vicious anti-Semite, this guy
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  Speaker 2: who seems to always be supporting terrorists or terrorist lawyers
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  Speaker 2: or anybody on that side. The families don't want him there.
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  Speaker 2: They had a petition to keep him out. Hundred thousand
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  Speaker 2: signatures now. Buddy still going. Why? Well, does he feel
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  Speaker 2: it's just the right thing to do to be there,
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  Speaker 2: that it's important for the mayor to be there? No,
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  Speaker 2: I don't think that's it. Late last week, there was
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  Speaker 2: a ceremony where he signed a bill. I forget what that,
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  Speaker 2: the bill was something to do with 9-11. increasing security,
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  Speaker 2: increasing terrorist watch, increasing terrorist tests, something like that. He
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  Speaker 2: signs the bill, and there's about 42 people standing there. And,
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  Speaker 2: you know, when the president signs a bill, he uses
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  Speaker 2: a few different pens, and then he hands the pens
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  Speaker 2: to certain people because it's a great souvenir of the
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  Speaker 2: president signing that bill. Now, for Mamdani to think anybody
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  Speaker 2: wants a pen from him. You ever see those Trump pens?
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  Speaker 2: The most beautiful pens. He had them specially made with
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  Speaker 2: the White House logo, with the president's signature. Unbelievable. So
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  Speaker 2: people display that. They build a case for it. They
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  Speaker 2: show it to people. Look at this. Here's the president
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  Speaker 2: of the United States. This is the pen he signed
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  Speaker 2: the big, beautiful bill with. It's very impressive. But could
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  Speaker 2: you picture anybody holding up a crappy little pen saying, hey,
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  Speaker 2: this was Mom Donnie's pen. What an ego on this
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  Speaker 2: guy to think anybody would want a pen from him
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  Speaker 2: signing a bill. But the key to this is there's
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  Speaker 2: like 42 people standing there. He could hand it to
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  Speaker 2: the police commissioner. Well, that would have been the most
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  Speaker 2: appropriate one. He could hand it to somebody. But he
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  Speaker 2: does hand it to the police commissioner. He says, pass
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  Speaker 2: it on to him. And he points to the lawyer
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  Speaker 2: for the terrorists. The 9-11 Al-Qaeda type terrorists, he's the lawyer.
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  Speaker 2: He defended a few of these Al-Qaeda guys. He hands
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  Speaker 2: the pen to him, which indicates this is all an
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  Speaker 2: attack on us. He's on the other side when it
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  Speaker 2: comes to 9-11. He's against the families. That's why he's going,
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  Speaker 2: just to cause trouble. I wouldn't have said this last week,
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  Speaker 2: but when he handed the pen, you got all these
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  Speaker 2: people standing there you give that pen to. He gives
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  Speaker 2: it to the terrorist representative. What does that tell you?
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  Speaker 2: There you go. He really is on the other side
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  Speaker 2: when it comes to 9-11. He feels they're the victims
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  Speaker 2: of 9-11. He feels they were justified somehow. Why else
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  Speaker 2: would you give it to their lawyer? And again, look,
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  Speaker 2: the lawyer's not even standing next to him. It has
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  Speaker 2: to be passed down because the lawyer's so far away.
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  Speaker 2: Why would you look at all these people and say,
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  Speaker 2: give it to him, the 9-11 terrorist Al-Qaeda lawyer. Give
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  Speaker 2: it to him. That tells you what he's really, really
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  Speaker 2: up to. Oh, we got the sound fixed. Steve Witkoff,
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  Speaker 2: back from meeting with Putin. We came to see President
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  Speaker 2: Putin first. We needed to hear where he stood. We
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  Speaker 2: had good concrete. We waited five minutes for that. Not
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  Speaker 2: that exciting. How about Jared Kushner? You ever hear Kushner talk?
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  Speaker 4: There is a pathway. There is a dialogue. And it's
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  Speaker 4: a really hard problem. I mean, this is a war
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  Speaker 4: that started before Putin. Obviously, President Trump took office, but
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  Speaker 4: he seems.
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  Speaker 2: To— Yeah, I don't know if that's the guy you
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  Speaker 2: should send. You know, Putin's like a vicious, murderous, unbelievable
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  Speaker 2: world dictator, killer, murderer. And you send this guy to
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  Speaker 2: talk like this to him. I don't know. It might
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  Speaker 2: not be the right guy. Might not be the right choice. Iran, well,
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  Speaker 2: there was a few. They fired at a ship or two.
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  Speaker 2: I think two ships they fired at. So we took
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  Speaker 2: out three of their ships, three big tankers. We just
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  Speaker 2: blew them right out of the water. We were very
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  Speaker 2: nice about it, actually. quite nice about it we actually
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  Speaker 2: uh broadcast with a big loudspeaker a huge announcement to
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  Speaker 2: the tanker they flew low over the tanker and said
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  Speaker 2: get off the ship abandon your ship it's about to
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  Speaker 2: be blown up uh i assume they did it in
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  Speaker 2: the right language so these people could understand it but
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  Speaker 2: they told everybody abandon the ship it's about to be
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  Speaker 2: blown up they waited a few minutes for and some
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  Speaker 2: people did abandon the ship and then they just blew
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  Speaker 2: up three tankers uh they let iran know anytime you
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  Speaker 2: hit a ship, we're going to take out three of yours.
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  Speaker 2: And they'll keep increasing that ratio. You take out one,
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  Speaker 2: we'll take out 10, that kind of stuff. I don't
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  Speaker 2: know if these lunatics care. But a tanker is a
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  Speaker 2: couple million bucks. It might have had oil on it.
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  Speaker 2: That's another couple million. So if you take out three
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  Speaker 2: of them, you probably cost them 12, 15 million bucks.
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  Speaker 2: And the good news is they think Iran has got
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  Speaker 2: about two months left Before it totally collapses. They think
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  Speaker 2: it has about two months of oil left. We've cut
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  Speaker 2: off their... We use the Strait of Hormuz. We've got
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  Speaker 2: tankers coming and going out of the Strait of Hormuz.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, we're doing about 8 million barrels a day
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  Speaker 2: through there. We think some days it's up to maybe
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  Speaker 2: 15 million. Pre-war, it was 20 million a day. But
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  Speaker 2: we've cut off the Strait of Hormuz from Iran. We've
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  Speaker 2: cut off their other routes to get oil in and out.
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  Speaker 2: And it's believed now they're down to just the last
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  Speaker 2: two months of fuel. And when that goes, a lot
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  Speaker 2: of things are going to happen. Right now, there are
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  Speaker 2: gas lines that go for like 10 blocks in Iran.
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  Speaker 2: Inflation is at 90%. Once they run out of fuel,
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  Speaker 2: things could change dramatically. Hey, we mentioned Maria Bartiromo. Ever
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  Speaker 2: watch CNBC? Anybody watch that anymore? A couple of great
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  Speaker 2: guys there. Joe Kernan's a great guy. And Rick Santelli, well,
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  Speaker 2: he announced he's retiring. Been there since 1999, 26 years. October,
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  Speaker 2: he'll retire. And look at this, Channel 4 at WNBC,
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  Speaker 2: Sarah Wallace, the great investigative reporter, she's retiring. She didn't
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  Speaker 2: know it, but they told her you're retiring. It's been
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  Speaker 2: there 11 years. But remember, before that, she was at
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  Speaker 2: Channel 7 for like three decades. So she's been on
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  Speaker 2: the air for many years in New York. She's very good.
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  Speaker 2: She was told, yes, she was told she's decided to retire.
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  Speaker 2: She's not retiring. She's looking for a new outlet. She'll
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  Speaker 2: find one. She's very good. WNBC General Manager Eric Lerner said,
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  Speaker 2: the move was very difficult, but it was necessary after
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  Speaker 2: we looked at our long-term financial planning, which means they're
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  Speaker 2: losing a hell of a lot of money at Channel 4.
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  Speaker 2: You got to remember when it comes to the local news,
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  Speaker 2: millions of people used to watch the 6 o'clock news.
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  Speaker 2: Millions of people used to watch the 11 o'clock news.
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  Speaker 2: And if you were Roger Grimsby or Ernie Anastas or
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  Speaker 2: those guys, you know, Warner Wolf back in the big
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  Speaker 2: days of local news, you were getting paid a fortune.
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  Speaker 2: They were getting millions of dollars, these anchors. Well, now,
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  Speaker 2: everything's different. Nobody watches primetime. Nobody watches network TV. Nobody
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  Speaker 2: watches local TV. I mean, they watch, but it's way,
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  Speaker 2: way down. You're lucky if you've got 200,000 viewers. So
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  Speaker 2: it's like, One-tenth the viewers you used to have. And
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  Speaker 2: the salaries had to come down a lot. That's why
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  Speaker 2: you see a lot of big anchors that all of
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  Speaker 2: a sudden weren't there anymore. They're just not going to
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  Speaker 2: pay anybody anymore. So they get rid of them. They
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  Speaker 2: hire new, young, cheap anchors. Local TV dying. Network TV dying.
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  Speaker 2: Radio actually not dying despite what you hear. More people
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  Speaker 2: listen to the radio today than 20 years ago. Radio
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  Speaker 2: listening at an all-time high. Even AM talk radio, 63
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  Speaker 2: million people. Listen to AM Talk Radio every day. Anyway,
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  Speaker 2: we've got a lot to get to, so don't go away.
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  Speaker 2: It's 9 to noon now, three hours every day, 9
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  Speaker 2: to noon every day. Hey, we'll get to the ballroom.
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  Speaker 2: Interesting developments there and more. It's Mark Simone, 9 to
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  Speaker 2: noon on 710WOR.
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  Speaker 1: Live from the WOR LifeVac studios, The Mark Simone Show.
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  Speaker 2: I was about to say it's Monday. It's Tuesday. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: don't forget it's Tuesday today. And it's after Labor Day. Now,
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  Speaker 2: this is a scary time for people here in New
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  Speaker 2: York because as soon as it's Labor Day, it's a
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  Speaker 2: day that people think we're all going to be in
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  Speaker 2: igloos and floating on an iceberg or something. It's still
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  Speaker 2: summer for a couple of weeks. Look at this. They
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  Speaker 2: get these messages. How was your summer? It's not over yet.
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  Speaker 2: Summer goes for like another two weeks. three weeks. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know if I'll find the date, but it's still summer.
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  Speaker 2: It's going to be in the eighties today. It's going
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  Speaker 2: to be sunny. It's going to be sunny all week.
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  Speaker 2: It's going to be eighties. It's still summer. And you're
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  Speaker 2: not a kid. You're not that you don't have to
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: go back to school. What are you? Nothing changes. I mean,
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: you got a few days off labor day weekend, but
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: it's still summer. Still fine. Uh, we got her. Okay.
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: We're getting the studio repaired from, uh, Whatever happened here
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: over the weekend, we got sound now. We got audio.
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: I was talking about Mamdani for his 9-11 nonsense. Mamdani
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: handing the pen to the terrorist lawyer to honor this guy,
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: of all people. But he's going to the 9-11 ceremony.
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: Here he is.
• 19:08
  Speaker 5: I'm proud to be the mayor of this city.
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: I love this city. I love this country.
• 19:12
  Speaker 5: And what I want this week to be a focus
• 19:15
  Speaker 5: on is on the families whose loved ones were stolen
• 19:18
  Speaker 5: from them 25 years ago in the horrific act of
• 19:21
  Speaker 5: terror of September 11th. And a focus also on the
• 19:24
  Speaker 5: first responders who gave everything they could to this city
• 19:27
  Speaker 5: and to the people who came together to try and
• 19:29
  Speaker 5: help their fellow New Yorkers. And so in the days
• 19:31
  Speaker 5: to come, my focus will be on attending events that
• 19:34
  Speaker 5: memorializes that incredible courage. And I will be there on
• 19:37
  Speaker 5: Friday at the memorial just as I was last year.
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: Now you might be saying, what's all that noise? Was
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: that recorded at the parade? That's fighting and gunfire and
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: stuff in the background at that parade. But yeah, he's
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: there to honor the future. Now we know from him
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: handing the pen to the terrorist lawyer that the last
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: thing on earth he really wants to do is honor
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: the families. Because why didn't he invite some of the
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: families to the signing of this 9-11 legislation? Why did
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: he hand the pen to the terrorist lawyer? Well, that's...
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: sending a signal to his base. Now, Rudy Giuliani, we
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: heard from him. He responds.
• 20:14
  Speaker 6: He doesn't agree that September 11 was an Islamic terrorist
• 20:19
  Speaker 6: attack on the United States of America, one that is
• 20:24
  Speaker 6: in terms of a war or effort continuing today and
• 20:28
  Speaker 6: maybe even worse today. So having lost friends there and
• 20:35
  Speaker 6: being very close to many of the families there, It
• 20:37
  Speaker 6: offends me that he's coming.
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it offends everybody. I mean, the last guy, you know,
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: if you're having the Yankee parade, you don't invite the
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: manager of the Red Sox there. I mean, it just
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: doesn't make any sense. Who's this? Nicole Meliotakis.
• 20:49
  Speaker 7: You know, when he pals around with people like Hassan Piker,
• 20:52
  Speaker 7: who said that America is deserved 9-11 of course these
• 20:56
  Speaker 7: families don't want to see him there uh they're they're
• 20:59
  Speaker 7: offended and rightfully so i think what i would like
• 21:01
  Speaker 7: to do is just just take away the spotlight from
• 21:04
  Speaker 7: him because this day is not about him in any
• 21:06
  Speaker 7: way yes he's the mayor yes he will be there
• 21:09
  Speaker 7: but the day is not about him.
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah now uh knowing this radical he's got something planned
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: for friday he's not just going to come stand there
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: i mean look at the signing ceremony He could have
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: just signed it and announced it, that's it. If he
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: thinks that anybody wants a pen that he used, if
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: he thinks that's a souvenir, he could have handed it
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: to the police commissioner. The fact that he gave it
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: to the terrorist lawyer, that's a deliberate, provocative act, which
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: means knowing this, I'd say this guy's got something planned
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: for Friday. He's going to pull some kind of crap
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: on Friday. Who knows who he'll bring with him? Who
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: knows what'll happen? It's not going to be good. on
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: friday so we'll see uh now uh where was oh
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: hey you want to see uh talk about politicians out
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: of touch you ever watch this chris murphy on those
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: sunday shows this guy just lies and lies and lies
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: makes the most outrageous claims and it's these corrupt sunday
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: shows where they don't correct anything he says they just
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: let him spew all this nonsense so anybody's a typical
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: uh like woke elitist, totally out of touch with people.
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: So he is, I guess he's running for re-election. He
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: has announced, and he's been doing it all weekend, a
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: walking tour where he walks through Connecticut. He walks 20
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: miles a day. And he said the reason he is
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: walking is to meet voters, to hear what they think,
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: to see what their concerns are. You're supposed to do
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: this every day. You're not supposed to have to go
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: out and do this as a special project. Let's meet
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: some actual citizens and find out how they actually feel,
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: what they really think. You're supposed to know this. You're
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: supposed to do this every day. Your daily life should
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: be encountering normal people. But this is what these elitists do,
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: these woke, woke left-wing kooks. They all hang around with
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: each other. They've never actually been around normal people. They've
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: never actually walked into a Costco or a Wawa. They've
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: never actually encountered normal Americans. So That's his special project.
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: He's going out to actually meet normal people to talk
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: to them, see what they think. And you can talk
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: to him all you want, but he's going to, you know,
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: forget it and wipe it all out of his head
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: as soon as he gets home. Anyway, we've got a
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: lot to get to. We'll take some calls in a
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: few minutes. It's Mark Simone here, 9 to noon. 9
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: to noon, three hours every day now on 710WOR.
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: The Mark Simone Show, now 9 till noon weekdays on 710WOR.
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: Hey, we'll take some calls. 800-321-0710 is the number. Hey,
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: you know, today's Tuesday. Starting tomorrow, Wednesday, is the midterm convention,
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: the Republican midterm convention. It'll be two days in Texas. Wednesday, tomorrow,
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: and Thursday. And it's a brilliant idea. President Trump came
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: up with it. I don't know why somebody didn't think
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: of this before. Presidential year, you have the big convention,
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: gets a lot of attention, everybody gets to speak, and
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: it's basically a big pep rally for the Republicans or
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: the Democrats. So it's midterm elections. It's an off-year election.
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: But President Trump came up with the idea, let's do
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: a midterm convention. He'll come and make a big, enormous speech,
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: and then They got a whole bunch of speakers. And
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: then at the end, final day, final night, J.D. Vance
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: will speak. The people that run it asked me if
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: I wanted to broadcast live from there. And, of course,
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: I immediately said no. Spent two days listening to politicians
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: make speeches. Now, that's the only problem with this convention.
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: It's a great idea. I don't know who's going to
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: actually show it. Obviously, they're not going to run it
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: on MSNBC or CNN or, you know, the networks and everything.
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: Even if you're Fox, you've got big, high-rated shows. You're
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: not going to preempt them to do these speeches. Maybe
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: President Trump's speech, but here's the list of speakers. Imagine
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: broadcasting live to get these speeches. Mike Rogers, Ken Paxton,
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: Caroline Leavitt will speak. All right, that one might be good.
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: Todd Blanch. And basically, it's just a bunch of senators.
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: It's Senator Ron Phillips. Senator John Fredericks. It's a million
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: senators you never heard of. So it'll go on for
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: two days. And again, it's a great idea. I just
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: don't know in the world today, I don't know who
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: will actually broadcast this and show this, but a million
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: clips will come out of it. Maybe that'll happen. What
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: the president wants to do here is nationalize this election.
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: So if you've got a local Senate race in Michigan,
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: a local Senate race somewhere, the problem is off-year election,
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: no presidential election. So You get very low voter turnout.
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: So he wants to make this as if he were
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: on the ballot, as if it's a vote for him
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: or against him to increase turnout among Republicans. So maybe,
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: just maybe, that'll work. Now, you're going to see all
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: these fake news, network news, his approval ratings, the president's
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: approval ratings are low. Look how low they are. They're
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: so low. They forget to tell you. They're double what
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: the Democrats are. Democrats have an approval rating way below Trump.
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: In fact, Democrats are now breaking the all-time record for
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: low approval ratings. They always leave that part out of
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: the story. And it's Trump. You know this guy. He'll
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: always pull a rabbit out of his hat. So between
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: now and November, he'll pull something off. Hey, let's take
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: some calls. Let's go to Jeffrey in New Hampshire. Jeffrey,
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: how are you doing?
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: Mark, awesome show. I'm addicted to the show. Now, Mayor
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: Mommy Connie of New York.
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: Now, this sounds like the Buchanan guy. There's no way
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: a guy calls you from New Hampshire. How are you?
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: Where are you actually from? This is Steve from Manhattan.
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: You can't call with that accent and try to claim
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: you're from New Hampshire.
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: I'm from New Hampshire.
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: What town are you in in New Hampshire?
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: Manchester.
• 27:21
  Speaker 5: Come on.
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: Don't give me.
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: The third degree. Tell me a town next to Manchester.
• 27:26
  Speaker 5: Oh, come on, man.
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: What are you doing? He always calls with a different name,
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: a different state. Let's go to Mike in Florida. Mike,
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: how are you doing?
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: You're like the ace detective.
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: Well, you don't have to be Columbo on that one.
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: You take a call from New Hampshire and go, yo,
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: how are you? They're not a guy from New Hampshire.
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: There, down south. I see the president is busting chops again, Mark,
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: by calling New Mexico New America, which I thought was amusing.
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: And I think I read somewhere he's thinking of changing
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: the name of the Grand Tetons after Dolly Parton.
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: Oh, there you go. Wait a minute. Hang on here.
• 28:13
  Speaker 7: So.
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: No, it's just he likes to shake things up. You know,
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: you ever go to the zoo and you're looking through
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: the cage, you're looking at the big tiger and There's
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: always some bratty kid who, like, has to rattle the cage. Yeah.
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: Throw something at the cage.
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: Yeah, he's the quintessential New Yorker. He's a BB, as
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: my father used to say, you know, about guys like that.
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: Something buster.
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: And that's what makes them great.
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: That's what makes... Exactly.
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: And that's, you know, because it works, and he understands that.
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: And it's not... It's sort of good nature, you know,
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: in many ways, but... You know, you have to be
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: accepting of that's what the problem, you know, that's what
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: the problem with some of these people who are going
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: to be no shows for the convention are going to,
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: you know, are going to, you know, create that situation where, ah,
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: he's too much. And it's like, no, go to the convention,
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: support it every way you can. You know, you want
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: to win.
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely. All right, Mike. Good call. Thanks for calling. Yeah,
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: he does. He just likes to cause a little trouble
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: now and then. He's just a bit of a he's
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: the Howard Stern president. You got to remember, he comes
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: from the world of Howard Stern, Imus, that kind of stuff.
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: You always rattle the cage, start a little trouble, push
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: the envelope. That's just the way he is. You're not
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: supposed to do that when you're president. But, hey, he's
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: had more success in a lot of areas than all
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: those professional politician presidents. So let him do it. That's
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: what he does. You know, any guys like that, when
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: they see a good target, I think that's the problem
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: with Canada. They just look like good targets. Those leaders
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: of Canada, they just look like these pompous stuff shirts.
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: And when Trump sees that, he loves to tweak them.
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: Let's go to Pat in Westchester. Pat, how you doing?
• 29:53
  Speaker 8: Very well, Mark. How about yourself?
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: Good.
• 29:56
  Speaker 8: Now, getting back to Maria Bartiromo, do you think her
• 29:59
  Speaker 8: good looks contributed a lot to her career success?
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: No. No, she was a very fine reporter, a very
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: good reporter. Remember, she was on the Wall Street stock
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: exchange floor originally as a reporter. No, she knows her
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: stuff backwards.
• 30:12
  Speaker 8: But she used to be referred to as Money Honey.
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah, because when you have a lot of great top
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: business reporters and one of them looks real good, you
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: make up a nickname like that.
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: No, you couldn't do that today. Back then, that was terrible.
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: 30 years ago, whatever that was, you could call it
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: the money honey. Now you'd be canceled for treating a
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: woman like an object like that.
• 30:31
  Speaker 8: And, uh, my other question would be, do you think
• 30:34
  Speaker 8: any of these other, uh, uh, uh, business hosts are
• 30:38
  Speaker 8: sitting by their phone waiting for a call? Maybe, uh,
• 30:41
  Speaker 8: to replace her?
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: No.
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: Oh, to replace her.
• 30:44
  Speaker 8: Uh, yeah.
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah. It's going to be rotating hosts. She does the, uh, uh,
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: morning show Fox business. So that'll be rotating hosts. And then, uh,
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: What else does she do? She does the Sunday show
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: on Fox News.
• 30:56
  Speaker 8: Yeah, she used to do like that version of Wall
• 30:59
  Speaker 8: Street Week.
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 31:01
  Speaker 8: So she actually, you know, she was a hard worker.
• 31:04
  Speaker 8: I wonder if when they confronted her on this thing,
• 31:07
  Speaker 8: you know, she used to work long hours and get
• 31:09
  Speaker 8: there 4 o'clock in the morning and.
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: Everything like that.
• 31:11
  Speaker 8: I wonder if she just said, ah, that's fine with me.
• 31:13
  Speaker 8: You know, let's.
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: Take it and walk away. She's a very hard worker,
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: but much of the time she was doing the show
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: from the Hamptons. Oh, yeah. The commute was from the
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: living room.
• 31:26
  Speaker 8: I know she married very well.
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, she does very well. She's a very nice
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: person in real life. Yeah. She'll do fine. Anyway, thanks
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: for calling. Yeah, where would she go? I don't know. Newsmax?
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: Could be. Could be. They're probably already calling. Yeah, there's
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: a lot of places she can go. No, she's a very, very,
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: very good business reporter. On the air, sometimes she'd get
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: in a little too much controversy. These little conspiracy theory
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: type stuff, Dominion, all those kind of things. She was
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: always going a little too far in that kind of stuff.
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: Rick Santelli is stepping down from CNBC. CNBC is a
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: very left-wing, very liberal, very biased place, except for Joe Kern.
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: And Rick Santelli, he would broadcast from Chicago. You see,
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: that's the thing. He's not in the swamp. He's not
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: in the New York, Washington, D.C. swamp. He was a
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: Midwestern guy coming from the heartland. Remember him? He's the
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: guy that came up with the name Tea Party. Remember that?
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: We're thinking of having a Chicago Tea Party in July.
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: All you capitalists that want to show up to Lake Michigan,
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: I'm going to start organizing.
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: What are you dumping in this time?
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he actually named it the Tea Party. He came
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: up with that name. Hey, we got a lot to
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: get to. Don't forget, it's three hours now, 9 to noon.
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: We got a lot of stuff coming up in the
• 32:50
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• 32:54
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• 32:58
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• 33:00
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• 33:03
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• 33:07
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• 33:13
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• 33:20
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• 33:23
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• 33:26
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